Meanings
nounmaldanid (plural maldanids)
plural maldanids
- Any polychete worm of the family Maldanidae.
Those that were found were mostly deep species not present shallower (e.g. loveniid heart urchins and species of lysianassid amphipods and among the polychaetes, the amphinomid Linopherus sp., the maldanid Axiothella sp., the opheliid Antiobactrum sp. and the spionid Aurospio sp.)
2015 December 1, “Macrofaunal Patterns in and around du Couedic and Bonney Submarine Canyons, South Australia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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